Color Fest 2011 (Long post, you are now warned)

Last night my sister Jennie and I were talking about The Festival of Colors and how she wanted to take Madelyn to it because she thought Madelyn would enjoy it, I told her I had some pictures of when Chris, my friend Jo, and I went last weekend and asked if she had seen them. Remembering I had only posted them on Facebook and forgetting that she doesn't have Facebook, she would probably never be able to see them. So I decided to post them and blog about my time there for her and some of my other friends who don't have the opportunity to view them via Facebook. (I'll probably be doing that with all of my other pictures as well just because of that sole reason) 

I read online that they had free parking at the fairgrounds in Spanish Fork and a shuttle for $2 to take us straight to the temple because they didn't want people parking on the side of the road because traffic was going to be bad that day anyways, so we parked at the fairgrounds. Basically we parked WAY in the very back of the fairgrounds in a little parking lot thing. As we were walking down to get on the shuttle we noticed a SUPER long line of about 50+ people waiting for the shuttle. We thought about it and said that it wasn't THAT far to walk there, so we set out on foot. 2 miles later.... we arrived. Upon arriving the people from the color throwing before had saved some of their color and threw it on us as we were in our last steps up to the temple. So basically we didn't need to throw the color because we had already got some color on us, HA not! 

 This is what Chris looked like as soon as we got to the Kirshna Temple grounds. 

 Chris and I together

 People just attacked Chris with this powdery, chalky stuff. Literally attacked him, it was pretty funny. 

 My good friend Jo came with us! YAY! 

 Jo and I! 

 (Ignore the creepers in the background) After we got our bags of color (87,000 bags were sold the day we went) we went closer down to the stage and waited for them to tell us when to all throw our bags at the same time. It's really awesome when so many people at the same time with so many different colors of chalk throw them at the same time. It was pretty awesome to see. 

 Face pretty well covered now, but we're not going to leave!!! 

 Chris by far had the coolest face out of all of us. All the orange and then little specks of all the other colors. It looked really awesome, right?

 Jo and her messy face! 

 Uh, yeah... Glasses protect your eyes from getting chalk in them yes, BUT the chalk builds up and you basically can't see ANYTHING! It was still a good time! 

 I think this was AFTER we threw all the colors. Also, you can see how crammed everyone is in such a small space. Still, it was a lot of fun! Little kids kept throwing chalk at us and we'd throw it back! It was a good time. 

 You can't really tell but this is us in front of the Krishna temple. Not as many people back here but still a lot. 

 Walking the 2 miles BACK to the car! 

 SAY CHEESE CHRIS!!!! 

 Wow, did I really look THAT bad?

 Back in the car, FINALLY! 

 Chris' sweet hair! 

 My sister Bobbie was nice enough to let us use her showers since she lives in Spanish Fork. One thing we really didn't think over too well, was we all showered at the same time in separate showers, of course , so the hot water didn't last very long! Luckily Jo and I had washed our faces first and just said we would try to get the rest of the color out of our hair back home. (By the way, my roots STILL have a little pink in them, I've taken four showers since Saturday.) Chris on the other hand, comes out with chalk still on his face and mad as ever because all the hot water was gone. We went to Barry's Drive In in Spanish Fork and ate dinner then went back to Bobbie's so Chris could finish getting it off his face. 

 Posing in the bathroom... 

Showing you how caked on it really is... eww. 

 My colorful hair! 

 Full body-ish shot. Which bathroom am I in??? (LOL, the master bath!)

All in all, it was a fun time. My legs were super sore after walking 4 miles in one day. I was really happy with the time that we went, because afterwards it started to rain and can you imagine WET chalk? Not fun! It was a fun time and I will probably keep going all my years living in Utah. It's a fun tradition and I am happy I was able to participate in it. 

So, Jennie... do you want to take Madelyn now? :)